Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. It’s a day like any other. Except . . . the world is about to end. It’s on this day that Pounce, … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Day Zero by C. Robert Cargill
Tag: post apocalyptic
Book Review: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
Summary: Six years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the planet’s population, the survivors are rebuilding the country, split between self-governing cities, hippie communes and wasteland gangs. In post-apocalyptic San Francisco, former pop star Moira has created a new identity to finally escape her past—until her domineering father launches a sweeping public search … Continue reading Book Review: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: A Longer Fall by Charlaine Harris
Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. In this second thrilling installment of he Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: A Longer Fall by Charlaine Harris
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. Six years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the planet’s population, the survivors are rebuilding the country, split between self-governing … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
Book Review: Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
Summary: It’s been four weeks since the bloody showdown at Black Mesa, and Maggie Hoskie, Diné monster hunter, is trying to make the best of things. Only her latest bounty hunt has gone sideways, she’s lost her only friend, Kai Arviso, and she’s somehow found herself responsible for a girl with a strange clan power. … Continue reading Book Review: Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
Book Review: The Book of Flora by Meg Elison #20booksofsummer
Summary: In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world that prizes procreation above all else, she is an … Continue reading Book Review: The Book of Flora by Meg Elison #20booksofsummer
Book Review: A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C. A. Fletcher
Summary: My name's Griz. My childhood wasn't like yours. I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football. My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, but we were never lonely on our remote island. We had each other, and our … Continue reading Book Review: A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C. A. Fletcher
Book Review: Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts
Summary: They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed. Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed before—the city where her parents lived, now in ruins and reclaimed by nature since the … Continue reading Book Review: Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. It's been four weeks since the bloody showdown at Black Mesa, and Maggie Hoskie, Diné monster hunter, is trying to make the … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
Book Review: Star Touched by A. L. Kaplan
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Tatiana is running from her past and her star-touched powers. Her power to heal may be overshadowed by more destructive abilities. Fleeing the persecution of those like her, Tatiana seeks refuge in a small town she once visited. But this civil haven, in a world where society has broken down, is beginning … Continue reading Book Review: Star Touched by A. L. Kaplan